The junior right-hander tossed his second career complete game, striking out seven batters in nine innings to help lead the Arkansas baseball team (16-7, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) to a 4-2 win against South Carolina (18-5, 2-3) on Saturday.

"Great job by Stanek coming through for us," said head coach Dave Van Horn. "He had electric stuff. It was pretty good on a cold day when it's hard to get loose."

The win clinched a victory for Arkansas in the three-game series, with a chance to earn a sweep in the series finale on Sunday.

"I felt pretty good," said Stanek, who threw 124 pitches in the game. "I'm getting into mid-season shape, so it's good that I'm able to stretch it out and pound the zone a little bit better now."

Both of the runs the Gamecocks scored against Stanek (2-1) were unearned, dropping his earned run average to 2.35, second-best on the team.

"He didn't want to come out," Van Horn said. "We were going to pull him after eight (innings) and he said, 'Hey, I want to finish this thing.' We called back down to the bullpen and said he's going back out, and he did it."

Arkansas recorded 10 hits in the game, the fourth in a row with 10 or more hits. Brian Anderson, Jacob Mahan and Dominic Ficocello each had two hits apiece, and Mahan extended his hitting streak to 11 games.

South Carolina scored the game's first run in the fifth inning when Chase Vergason hit a sacrifice fly to center field, scoring Grayson Greiner, who reached on a two-out error by Anderson at shortstop.

The Razorbacks answered in the sixth when Tyler Spoon lined an RBI single into left field, scoring Mahan.

Arkansas took the lead in the seventh when Dominic Ficocello scored on a safety squeeze bunt by Jacob Morris with two strikes. A throwing error by shortstop Joey Pankake allowed Morris to score later on to extend the lead to two.

"We were fortunate to score that first run," Van Horn said. "We had to gamble. We bunted with two strikes and it worked out for us."

Matt Vinson hit a one-out home run in the eighth inning, his first of the season, to put the Razorbacks ahead, 4-1. South Carolina scored a run in the bottom half, but could not come any closer.

Left-hander Randall Fant (1-0, 1.12) will start in the series finale for Arkansas Sunday at 12:30.